I cannot stop watching their sylph-bodies leave and return to the water, each nub of soft flesh, their dimpled hides. They’re playing Marco Polo, screaming out colors—purple, turquoise, gold—sending bright sparks of water over our heads. As each takes a turn standing on the edge of the pool, I get to watch their bodies at […]
When I said I didn’t want to live in Pennsylvania, I meant it. The house out- side Philadelphia rotting each limb that’s lost its use, your mother’s soldered pout as she hands over the china, wrinkled hills of leafless trees spreading a browned gown, the sparse lights of the Ivy Leagues sprinkled on the horizon, […]
Keetje Kuipers, recipient of the 2007 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, talks about the genesis of her poem Diagnosis.
Keetje Kuipers, recipient of the 2007 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, offers a bit of advice to young writers.